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Using Meds to Manage Your Arthritis Pain: An Overview
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- September 19, 2023
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Millions of Americans suffer from arthritis, and many reach for medication to ease their joint pain and inflammation.
The options might seem overwhelming, though. Here, the Arthritis Foundation offers some suggestions for meds that can be purchased at a local drug store ...
Low-Dose Colchicine Might Prevent or Delay Knee, Hip Replacements
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- May 31, 2023
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An anti-inflammatory drug that has been around for over 2,000 years might help delay a very modern problem: hip and knee replacements.
That's the suggestion of a new study finding that older adults who used the drug — called colchicine — were less likely to need hip ...
FDA Approves First Monoclonal Antibody Treatment for Arthritis in Dogs
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- May 8, 2023
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Man's aging best friend has a new treatment to dull osteoarthritis pain as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approval Friday of the first monoclonal antibody for dogs.
Called Librela, the bedinvetmab shot controls pain from the most common form of art...
Arthritis Treatments: How to Get Pain Relief From Arthritis
- Kirstie Ganobsik HealthDay Reporter
- April 20, 2023
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There are more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions, and they affect at least 54 million adults and 300,000 children in the United States, according to the
Get Pain Relief With the Most Common Arthritis Medications
- Sue Benzuly, RN HealthDay Reporter
- April 17, 2023
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Arthritis is a common disease that causes pain and inflammation in different body joints, making it difficult to enjoy everyday tasks and physical activity.
Fortunately, there are many different medications for arthritis. Depending on what type of arthritis you have and...
Do Steroid Injections Worsen Arthritic Knees?
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- November 30, 2022
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Corticosteroid injections to relieve pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis could actually be setting them back.
Two new studies have discovered that, despite the temporary relief of symptoms, the injections were associated with continued progression of the disease.
Could NSAIDs Like Ibuprofen, Aleve Make Arthritic Knees Worse?
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- November 22, 2022
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Over-the-counter pain relievers like aspirin, Aleve or ibuprofen don't do a thing to slow the progression of knee arthritis, and might even make things worse, a new study suggests.
Knee arthritis patients who regularly took nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) w...
Widely Used Steroid Meds Could Alter the Brain
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 31, 2022
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Long-term steroid use can reshape the structure of the brain, causing some parts to shrink and others to grow, a major new study reports.
People taking steroids -- even inhaled steroids -- appear to have less intact white matter structure in their brains compared with th...
Rehab or Steroid Shots: What's Best for Arthritic Knees?
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- January 28, 2022
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Physical therapy for knee arthritis tends to cost patients more out-of-pocket and involves a lot more hassle than a quick steroid shot to soothe an aching joint.
But in the long run, physical therapy is at least as cost-effective as steroid injections and is more likely ...
2 Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs Tied to Lower Risk of Parkinson's
- Robert Preidt
- January 28, 2022
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Two rheumatoid arthritis drugs show potential for lowering the risk of Parkinson's disease, new research shows.
Some previous studies have found that people with rheumatoid arthritis have a lower risk of Parkinson's, and it was suggested that a class of rheumatoid arthri...
Common Gout Drug Is Safe in Patients With Kidney Issues
- Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter
- January 26, 2022
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Allopurinol, a frequently used gout medication, does not appear to drive up the risk for dying among gout patients who also struggle with chronic kidney disease, new research shows.
The finding is based on an analysis of two decades worth of British health records. And i...
Ultra-Low Dose of Rituximab Safely Eases Rheumatoid Arthritis Over Long Term: Study
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- November 9, 2021
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"Ultra-low" doses of the drug rituximab may be enough to keep some patients' rheumatoid arthritis under control for several years, a new, preliminary study suggests.
Researchers found that among 118 patients, low doses of the drug were comparable to standard ones in cont...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Might Help Save Hospitalized COVID Patients
- Robert Preidt
- September 2, 2021
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As doctors around the world come up against severe cases of COVID-19, some positive news has emerged: New research shows the rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib may help reduce hospitalized COVID patients' risk of death.
Current standard-of-care medications aren't enou...
Beta-Blocker Heart Meds Might Lower Arthritis Risk
- Robert Preidt
- May 18, 2021
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Commonly used beta blocker heart medicine may also reduce the risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis and pain, a new study suggests.
"Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and affects 15% of the general population," said study co-authors Georgina Nakafero and ...
Does an Arthritis Drug Help Patients Battling Severe COVID? It Depends on the Study
- Robert Preidt
- March 3, 2021
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Two new studies suggest that the jury is still out on whether the arthritis drug tocilizumab helps those with severe COVID-19.
Both reports were published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, from scientists at the University of California...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Meds May Help Fight Severe COVID-19
- Steven Reinberg
- February 26, 2021
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Rheumatoid arthritis drugs may save lives of patients hospitalized with severe cases of COVID-19, according to a groundbreaking clinical trial.
The findings, first announced in January, have now been peer-reviewed and published in a major medical journal.
"We are d...
Arthritis Drug Tocilizumab Flops as COVID-19 Treatment
- Robert Preidt
- January 21, 2021
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The arthritis drug tocilizumab doesn't help hospital patients with severe COVID-19, according to a new study that contradicts earlier research suggesting that it might aid recovery.
In fact, patients receiving tocilizumab had a higher risk of death, so the trial was hal...
1 in 3 Americans With Arthritis Say Pain, Symptoms Persist
- Cara Roberts Murez
- October 20, 2020
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About 30 million U.S. adults live with osteoarthritis and the pain and stiffness it causes, a new survey finds.
And nearly one-third of these people said their symptoms are not well-managed, according to the Arthritis Foundation survey of almost 2,000 adults. In oste...
Newer Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug May Help Ease Tough-to-Treat Cases
- Dennis Thompson
- October 19, 2020
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A recently approved rheumatoid arthritis medication appears to be an effective second-line therapy when biologic treatments start to fail, a new clinical trial reports.
Arthritis sufferers treated with upadacitinib had a significantly greater reduction in their sympt...
More Patients Turning to Medical Marijuana for Arthritis Pain
- Dennis Thompson
- May 28, 2020
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Lots of people are using medical marijuana to treat their arthritis and other muscle aches and pains, often without consulting their doctor, a new study reports.
As many as 1 in 5 patients who consult an orthopedic surgeon for chronic musculoskeletal pain are using a c...
In Small Study, Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug Appears to Help COVID-19 Patients
- Robert Preidt
- May 8, 2020
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In the scramble to find medicines that beat back COVID-19, researchers from Italy report encouraging results from a small study on a rheumatoid arthritis drug already in use.
The drug, anakinra, may help quiet the runaway immune response known as a "cytokine storm," ...
Certain Diabetes Meds May Lower Gout Risk, Too
- Serena Gordon
- January 13, 2020
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Medications called SGLT2 inhibitors lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. And new research suggests these drugs may have an added benefit -- lowering the risk of gout.
Compared with people taking another class of diabetes drugs (GLP1 receptor agonists), ...
Experimental Drug Could Be New Option Against Arthritis
- Dennis Thompson
- December 31, 2019
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A new drug might be able to save a person's knees from the ravages of osteoarthritis, researchers report.
People taking the drug, code named MIV-711, had less bone and cartilage loss than others given a placebo.
"We know that bone slowly changes shape as k...
Sick Americans Turning to Medical Pot for Help
- Steven Reinberg
- September 20, 2019
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More Americans use marijuana to help them cope with an illness than just to get high, a new study finds.
Nearly 46% of those who use pot say they do so because of a medical condition, compared with 22% who say they use marijuana for recreation.
And...
Glucosamine Joint Pain Supplement Could Help the Heart
- Alan Mozes
- May 15, 2019
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TUESDAY, May 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Glucosamine has long been used as a supplement to help ease the joint pain of arthritis, but new research suggests its anti-inflammatory properties might also lower heart disease risk.
The finding stems from a lifestyle surv...